Culinary chopping device



Patented Feb. 21, 1923 U HTED SA oFFlcE.

CULINARY CHOPPING DEVICE.

Application filed October 19, 1921. Serial No. 508,860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD PRICE, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia,Canada, have invented a new and useful Culinary Chopping Device, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to labour saving appliances used in the preparationof food, and more specifically to mincing or chopping devices which areheld in or operated with the hands The object of my invention is toprovide a chopper for household use which is simple and inexpensive,sanitary in construction, and which operates quicker and moreeffectively than chopping knives now in use.

I am able to accomplish these results by the following construction. Inthe drawings:Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 show plan views of my device, the formerbeing the auxiliary and the latter being the complete combination, Figs.2, and 3, show longitudinal sections, the former being the completecombination which latter is also shown in transverse section by Fig. 5;it will be observed that the device consists of two parts a, and b,easily attachable or detachable, each of these portions a, and 6,consists essentially of a metal frame into which are secureda number ofsimple knife blades, and that in the one case the knives are placedlongitudinally as at c, in one portion of the device, and in the othercase are placed transversely as at (l,-

in the other separable portion: the back or blunt edge of the transverseblades being each provided with a number of slots 6, into which thelongitudinal knife blades 0, of

the metal frame 6, are inserted; the knife blades 0, being also slottedto correspond, but on the keen edge; so that the slotting 1S halvedbetween the two knives and a maximum of strength retained in the blades.

The metal frame a, is provided at the ends with simple extensions formedinto handles, one for either hand.

It will be seen that the chopper can be used with good effect eithersingly, by using that portion belonging to frame a, or in comblnationwith auxiliaryframe b, in the former case the transverse knives only areused and the food material is sliced into strips, whilst if the twoframes are used in combination by slipping frame I), on to frame a, andtightening the retaining screws 7', the food material is chopped intorectangular pieces, and this with great rapidity owing to the number ofdivisions, and yet owing to the simple method of separation of the twoparts, either may 'be most effectively cleansed with a minimum oftrouble.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a multiple chopping device for hand use, the combination of two metalframes, one placed above the other, each carrying knives arranged inparallel, the knives in one frame being at right angles to the knives inthe other frame, and the one set of knives being slotted to receive theother set.

Victoria, eleventh day of October, 1921.

ALBERT EDWARD PRICE.

Signed in the presence of- CHAs. F. EAGLES, THOMAS L. BOYDEN.

